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Daily Report

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Monday, August 25, 1856

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Birthdays

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Thomas Carroll Bailey

25 years old today

Clinton Levering Cobb, Brady image, detail

Clinton Levering Cobb

14 years old today

Percival Drayton, detail

Percival Drayton

44 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Louis Frederick Eichelberger

53 years old today

Bret Harte, circa 1890, detail

Francis Brett Harte

20 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Charles William Keesee

30 years old today

Events

Legal/Political
Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate 03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political
Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives 03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Slavery/Abolition
Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. 10/01/1854 to 10/01/1856
Legal/Political
Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate 03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political
Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress 03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857

Documents

Newspaper
Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Underground Railroad," August 25, 1856 08/25/1856

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